Tuesday, 28 October 2008

One truth.

Sadness and longing seem to have come hand in hand with understanding over the last weeks.
I've all kinds of fantasies with men and with women - mostly they sit in 3 areas.

The first is me, the woman who wants to yield to the power of a man's energy. To be held down, to be ravaged, to feel my wildness contained beautifully, to submit, to have all choice taken away from me, to be fucked, hard. To be broken and then masterfully brought back to life, to be in receipt of delicious and burning pain, to be smothered by him and then lifted by him, to be utterly compelled and captivated by someone, and to crave for them and have those cravings shudderingly met.

Then there is me, the well-disciplined girl. The girl who sometimes wants guidance and needs a regular firm hand. The girl who blushes at the mention of a smacked bottom, who finds embarrassment touches something deep inside that needs a playful and poignant stir. The girl who is delighting in rules for the very first time in her life because she equates rules with care and obedience and she only wants to be obedient because she is so full of respect for the man that is holding her accountable. She is discovering being a girl again, being tender and being exploratory and having her hand held as she does so. She doesn't need to always be in control anymore, she can be shy and curious and sometimes scared and show all of what was on the inside, on the outside now.

Then there is the woman who enjoys adventure. Who has always had an open mind and a loving heart. Who was kissing girls and boys from far too young an age. Who was having kissing and fondling parties in her bedroom at primary school, who was caught kissing girls in her gym class and would enjoy watching boys touching themselves. Fast forward from 11 to 18 when everything went a little bit wrong, and she was back and experiencing sharing a bed with an older couple, having her bottom fucked, making love to a woman for the first time, holidaying in Lesvos, then settling down to an 8 year monogomous relationship with a girl. And now, she's found a whole other world where all the parts of her that were wanting to be explored have suddenly been able to burst forth and find expression. She's travelled alone to a few swingers nights, they weren't for her, then to a few BDSM nights, they weren't for her either, but she still travels to new places looking for kinky, erotic, masochistic, connecting, loving, honest experiences . She is learning that she enjoys administering a sore bottom too...enjoys the feeling of a man wriggling with a hard cock against her lap, watching his bottom turning crimson and trailing her nails over his sore cheeks. And Disciplining girls too, being a mentor, and also finding that her open and loving heart can find other ways to have relationships, where polyamory and compersion are things that she is learning about all of the time.

And then, there is this quiet voice, it is still me, but it is me right down at the very depths of who I am. Slowly this voice has come to understand what she wants to say, what it is that is at the core of all of these things, she whispers, because this is the sadness and the longing she spoke of at the beginning of this post, what she really wants, what she has been desiring since she was as young as maybe 11 or 12, is to be "owned" by a couple. That is her dream. That is my dream. And it has been sad to come to realise that probably that dream is never going to come true.

Picking things back up.

It has been a long time since I visited here. And in my life often a month can feel like a year with all the many things that happen, how things unfold.

I think I mostly come here to rest, to be fully me. 
So much has happened between he and I in these last weeks. The new girl that arrived in our metaphorical bed has been and although she hasn't gone, he did make the decision a few weeks ago that he couldn't possibly be that role in another woman's life. So they are just friends. She and I are friends too. I like her a lot :)

But me, now, here. Who am I really, how honest am I being with myself. What is it that I really want.....

I am 32 years old. I'm a woman who is really very proud to be a woman. I am a woman who has always been drawn to women, to their minds, to their bodies, to their ways of being. My attic flat is adorned with paintings and photographs and canvases and sketches of women, naked, dead, poised, dream-like, wild, strong, natural and feminine.
Am I the woman that I wanted to be?
Can I really hold my head up high and feel proud of the way I am living my life right now?

I have a new Mentor in my professional life. I've never had a mentor before and so I feel very lucky. She is an older woman, 60, and someone whom I look at and admire. She looked at me last night after an evening of work and wine with a group of 8 other women and told me that if there was one thing she wanted to do it was to help me be more confident. Apparently I apologise before I speak, every time before I go to say something I say sorry.

What is it that I am apologising for?
Is it that actually I am just very very sorry, endlessly sorry, for all the time that I remain staying in this relationship...sorry to both of the other women, sorry to all the people in my life that watch me continue do this, and maybe even sorry to myself.

I'd like to be a woman that I can feel more proud of.